Ruby follows Perl's philosophy of "there is more than one way to do it."
That sounds terrible! When you scale an organization, do you really want everyone doing everything in their own unique way?
Python has a more practical philosophy:
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
While this sounds a little fascist, it enforces consistency. It means that a senior Python programmer will see code from another senior Python programmer and say to themselves "yup, I'd make it exactly this way if I wrote it myself."
Ruby follows Perl's philosophy of "there is more than one way to do it."
That sounds terrible! When you scale an organization, do you really want everyone doing everything in their own unique way?
Python has a more practical philosophy:
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
While this sounds a little fascist, it enforces consistency. It means that a senior Python programmer will see code from another senior Python programmer and say to themselves "yup, I'd make it exactly this way if I wrote it myself."